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[Grinder69]

Here is a rock I found in my pasture while digging a bed for potatoes.  When you live in the North Puget Sound country there are a lot and I mean a lot of interesting rocks in the ground.  I am particularly intrigued by this one.  I have cut a slab and marked it.  It will be interesting to see how it comes out in the winter.  Has anybody seen more of this materiaL.  The pink is not Rhodonite as it shows no tendency to black oxidation.  It is slightly harder than the matrix. I will send a photo this winter when I get around to roughing this puppy out and cutting it.

Regards
Mike

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Good looking rock. I like putting those "unknowns" on the saw when they're as interesting as that one is.

[Phishisgroovin]

i always bring home unknown rocks, those tater fields up in Mt Vernon have alot of rocks that are interesting.
i did alot of utility work burying lines in My Vernon in my youth and always brought home rocks.
That was years ago way before i touched lapidary.
Those green rocks i brought home, i wish i had them still. I brought nothing home that didnt look like it would break apart if i made an arrowhead or knife.
they were probably a jade type rock, long gone is that pile of rocks. I left it at the house we moved from in 93.

all those jobs in Darrington (Bob Barkers house included) i collected MANY big rocks, when i placed phone lines and cable TV around Big Lake i brought home rocks that took two people to put in my little truck.

[R.U. Sirius]

It reminded me of this dontknowite I picked up at an estate auction. It feels gritty, like quartzite or some relatively coarse rhyolite. Pictured dry.

[qtz2010]

Possibly feldspar.

[lithicbeads]

Slightly metamorphosed feldspar in diorite.